_{Boats ride to our car through a man-made Danube-delta channel bordered by marshes and hundreds of comorant bird nests}

_{The channel was full of aquatic vegetation, species of the genus Trapa and Ceratophyllum, Nympheae and Myriophyllum}

_{Everyone tired, the boats man in the back steady}

_{…showing us the giant inland freshwater sea at dawn…}

_{Deserved dinner after hard a day an night of collecting – nearly midnight}

_{Last day of collecting to find the endemic Romanichthys…}

_{…and its type locality in the upper Valsan river}

_{The collecting started in the lower Valsan, were temperatures still reached almost 22 ° C and there were eight different species to be found, one loach Sabanejewia bulgarica under wood and stones…}

_{…and the sympatric living second loach species Sabanejewia romanica, but only over nearby sand banks}

_{There was a Perch Perca fluviatilis  which has 10 bars}

_{Closing in at the upper Valsan with temperatures of 12-14 °C in the Romanichthys biotope}

_{…but every attempt was in vain, there were no fish at all, only down stream again…}

_{…one of the Romanian Barbus barbus…}

_{…another loach Barbatula barbatula…}

_{…the Romanian Phoxinus phoxinus…}

_{…a Squalus cephalus – juvenile specimen and…}

_{…an adult speciemen of Squalus cephalus Heiko was able to collected in the lower Valsan river}

_{Typical houses of the region}

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